[AnimalMuppet]

The election of Trump could be regarded as "blowing up". I recall someone saying, "I can't throw a molotov cocktail through the window of the White House, but I can throw a Trump." That is, at least some people voted for Trump as a deliberate attack on the powers that be.

An effective attack? I would say, not really. (Has he improved the economic lot of the people who voted for him? No, he hasn't.) But the sentiment is there to "tear it all down", and it's resulting in action, at least at the voting booth.

Is it resulting in direct action in the streets? Not yet. But we may be closer than you think. (Or perhaps I should have said "not currently". BLM, for example, was kind of in that direction.)

[insane_dreamer]

I think it was more of an attack on what was perceived as a "woke lib" system at odds with "true American values". If they were trying to change the system and balance of power of corporations vs employees (the topic here), they truly shot themselves in the foot by voting for the person who of all the candidates was the most likely to make the situation worse for them by further enabling corporations vs labor, and which is turning out to be even worse than anyone imagined in that respect.